Romance and the Alternate Charlotte

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THE EVIL TWIN – directed by Max McGuire – SPOILERS

Emily PIggford

Emily Piggford as Charlotte Palmer, and (right) as Emily North, thirty-year-old twins who finally meet after both coincidentally return to the place they were born. Unlike the Brontë sisters, Charlotte is the younger of the two.

The twin in the title (the evil one) is Charlotte (Emily Piggford), and she lives somewhere in upstate New York in a house purchased by her former lover Trevor Forsbeck (Gregory Wilson) for the specific purpose of keeping their affair secret. Realtor Linda Carmichael (Tanya Clarke) who was married to Trevor, suspects that Charlotte had something to do with his death, and Trevor’s brother Blake (Tomas Chovanec) is in agreement about that, but the police have found nothing suspicious about Trevor’s demise. Charlotte is securely living in her dead lover’s house but her troubles begin when twin sister Emily (also played by Piggford) arrives in town after fleeing an abusive boyfriend. Continue reading →

A Portal to the Past Somewhere in the Future

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OUTER RANGE – created by Brian Watkins – Season One – SPOILERS

Josh Brolin

Josh Brolin as Royal Abbott

Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) kicks things off with a dramatic aside: “You know anything about a Greek god called Chronos?” he asks. “He carried a sickle. He used it to cut a hole – a tear in the cosmos between heaven and earth to separate this world from the next. To separate the known from the unknown. The world has been waiting for something like this.” The Abbott Ranch and everything around it is full of zoological anachronisms, and shortly after the series opens Royal finds a hole in his west pasture that behaves like a wormhole. (It looks like it was made by an actual earthworm of considerable size.) Whatever enters the hole re-emerges at a different time and a different place. Continue reading →

From – Thoughts at the End of Season One

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Speculative Recap – SPOILERS

Simon Webster and Catalina Sandino Moreno

Ethan and his mother puzzle over some of Victor’s drawings in “Into the Woods” (Episode 9)

Ethan (Simon Webster) wakes up in Episode 2 after having part of a chair removed from his leg. “I saw the Lake of Tears,” he tells his dad. “It was a drawing on the wall. There were so many drawings on the wall, like when I used to draw with crayons and you would put it on the fridge. And we were all there in the drawings, you and me, and Mom and Julie. But somebody screamed because the spider came down from the ceiling.”

In the sixth episode, Ethan compares the town’s storage room to the Cavern of the Lonely Dragon (from a story he has been reading). “When the Cromenockle was lost in the rainbow sky, she found a cavern where the lonely dragon lived, and it was full of stuff that nobody wanted. But for the lonely dragon, all the stuff was treasure. And guess what, in one of the big piles of stuff, there was the map of the rainbow sky. So, the lonely dragon gave it to the Cromenockle, and then she wasn’t lost anymore.”

In Episode 9, Ethan says that Victor’s drawings represent a story, not a puzzle. “They all fit together and tell a story. And once we figure out the story, we’ll know what to do next. That’s how it works. We can’t finish the quest unless we figure out the story.” Continue reading →